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R U OK now?I am so lucky to have people who care enough to realise when I’m tracking badly and do what they can to help. Many, many people deal with…Sep 8, 20221Sep 8, 20221
I have only written about my miscarriage once.I was about twelve weeks along. At the time, I was working at the Royal Australian Air Force base in Laverton, west of Melbourne. My…May 9, 2021May 9, 2021
How to be mental in the apocalypseIn the last moments of 2019, a town gathered by the water under a red sky. The fire had come too quickly, there was no time to evacuate…Jan 3, 2020Jan 3, 2020
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The Greatest Legacy of AllWhen I was 14, I went with my boyfriend and his parents to Footy Park on a Saturday afternoon. We had never been to the football together…Sep 26, 2019Sep 26, 2019